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Thorndon leaned forward in his chair and drew down his eyebrow tightly against the rim of his monocle. "Yes, sir. I take it that you are Lord Henry Monckton, ninth Baron of Dimbledon." Master and man exchanged a rapid glance. "Tibbets," said the master coldly, "you registered." "Yes, sir." "What did you register?" "Oh," interposed the reporter, "it was the name Dimbledon caught my eye, sir.
"But he's grim, he's worn and things have happened to him. He doesn't make shift, for sight, with your charming monocle." "No" it struck Brydon; "I couldn't have sported mine 'down-town. They'd have guyed me there." "His great convex pince-nez I saw it, I recognised the kind is for his poor ruined sight. And his poor right hand !" "Ah!"
We learned to wait regularly for the ceremony of seeing Sir Monocle and his load toted off to bed at nine o'clock every night, just as we learned to linger in the offing and watch the nimble knife-work when the prize invalid of the ship's roster had cornered a fresh victim. The prize invalid, it is hardly worth while to state, was of the opposite sex.
"This way," said James, and led his companion round an angle of the house into the shadow of the square Georgian porch. The bolts were being withdrawn as they reached the steps, and a tall, grey-haired man in a dressing-gown opened the door. He held a candle above his head and surveyed the wayfarers through a rimless monocle. "Didn't expect you till to-morrow," was his laconic greeting.
"Yes," said Montessuy, "it is the Guerric." And, addressing Therese: "You knew the Marquis de Re? At sixty-five he had retained his strength and his youth. He set the fashion and was loved. Young men copied his frockcoat, his monocle, his gestures, his exquisite insolence, his amusing fads. Suddenly he abandoned society, closed his house, sold his stable, ceased to show himself.
And as I sat down I became aware of a girl at the next table a girl all in white the most ravishingly and distractingly pretty girl that I had ever seen. In the agitation of the moment I forgot my name, my fortune, my aunt, and the Crimson Diamond all these I forgot in a purely human impulse to see clearly; and to that end I removed my monocle from my left eye.
He had seated himself in the chair next to mine. "Say! young man, you'll excuse me; but was it you I saw come in last night with the bag of golf clubs?" I acknowledged the crime. He laughed good-naturedly. "Well, you had courage anyway. To sport a golfing outfit here in the West is like venturing out with breeches, a walking cane and a monocle. Nobody but an Englishman would dare do it.
The monocle did not move from its orbit, but a light ripple of surprise appeared to cross its luminous convexity. The doctor hastened to reply. "The count is an illustrious diplomat who is now on leave, regaining his health. He has traveled a great deal, but he is not a sailor." And she continued her explanations. The Kaledines were of a Russian family ennobled in the days of Catherine the Great.
Charley looked through his monocle at the crowd reflectively, his head held a little to one side in a questioning sort of way, on his lips the ghost of a smile not a reassuring smile. Presently he leaned forward slightly and the monocle dropped from his eye.
Joli garçon he was" he ran a hand round a weather-beaten cheek as if to suggest the other's well-made face "monocle in his eye and he never let go of it until it fell off a lance through his heart." As we talked two secret-service-men entered, demanded our papers, examined them, and directed us to call at the Maine for them next morning at eight o'clock. Now, indeed, we were walking a tight rope.
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